Terence Newman was scared that his former Dallas Cowboys teammate Marion Barber would possibly punch him the final time that they noticed one another earlier than Barber’s mysterious loss of life.
Newman was in the midst of discussing the toll that soccer takes on the physique — particularly enjoying for a “mean-ass coach” like Invoice Parcells — with Tyler Dunne of GoLongTD.com when he received the information of Barber’s loss of life. Newman then advised a harrowing story about seeing Barber about three years earlier, when he was driving to the gasoline station a few mile from his house, close to the place Barber was dwelling in a high-rise constructing.
“I see this man strolling down the road — within the rain,” Newman stated. “I get to the gasoline station and it’s Marion. I hadn’t seen Marion shortly, however I heard he had fallen on laborious occasions and wasn’t doing too nicely. So, we talked and exchanged numbers, however I used to be scared after I noticed him.
“He seemed unhealthy. He seemed like he wasn’t there, like he was a distinct particular person, like he couldn’t perform. And that’s most likely why he was strolling and never driving. After I inform you I used to be scared, I assumed he would possibly swing on me. I used to be truly scared.”
The 38-year-old Barber was discovered lifeless on June 1 by police conducting a wellness test. No official reason behind loss of life has been launched.
However Newman expressed suspicions that it needed to do with concussions and doable continual traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the mind illness that has been linked to the suicides of many former soccer stars.
“He had a glance but in addition his face was simply droopy,” Newman stated. “It seemed like he was homeless. Like he lived on the streets. I suppose he had so many concussions that it actually impacted him. … I feel that needed to play some sort of function in no matter occurred to him.”
Barber carried the ball 1,156 occasions throughout six seasons with the Cowboys and a final cease with the 2011 Chicago Bears. Newman was Barber’s teammate for that whole run with the Cowboys and finally retired after his 15th season in 2017.
Newman additionally talked about a former Kansas State teammate, Jarrod Cooper, who was a “kamikaze” on particular groups and led along with his head to ship large hits. Cooper has “advance phases of CTE and was bedridden for half of a month,” in keeping with Newman.
“The fellows who performed the sport like that — Junior Seau [and] the blokes who’ve taken their very own lives — in the event that they had been alive proper now,” Newman stated, “they'd inform you to make it extra of a finesse sport.”
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